The proposed budget came out for Wake County Schools. I had some questions, so I popped off a letter, which I have included below. It’s worth noting I also ask about the NC Large District Superintendent Consortium, of which I have an active FOIA request currently in process. I also ask about the ambitious raise of 3.5% Merrill highlights. I’m pleased to see that, however how is it structured exactly? It would be more frustration and a shame to see the rug get pulled out from under teachers again, so that is one question I ask. I didn’t ask how much this video cost us:

Did you get that? It’s all the rigor. In case you missed it, it’s the rigor. You know, we have to skew the scores again because… rigor. They doth protest too much in this video, which is why I decided to ask about the EOC’s as well in my letter. Wake Parents, you should be asking questions too. Contact the Superintendent. I’ll happily publish your questions and any replies you get, just contact me at TheLL1885@gmail.com

I understand these were altered in the past and have been altered again to allow for more children to pass them because of “rigor”.

1. What purpose does this altering serve beyond softening the blow of bad results coming back again this year?

2. How are you getting real results of what this “rigor” of new standards is by widening the passing rate?

3. Where can a citizen find the raw scores before they are tampered with by adjusting them to this new scale?

Also, the link below on the WCPSS page does not take you where the link says it should – if it does, please indicate where this item is supposed to be located in the page it does take you to as it is not readily apparent:

On a related matter, I and many other parents asked several questions at the Superintendent Direct Line forum and have not seen any answers or response to them yet. Will there be an addressing of our concerns, in particular the pointed question about the NC Large Schools Superintendent Consortium and the Data collection? In case one needs to review what was asked, I captured it all here for you:http://stopcommoncorenc.org/2014/02/25/wake-cty-direct-line-forum-video/

I will be posting this letter online. I will also post your response when I received it or make note of the lack thereof.

Thank you in advance,

A. P. Dillon
LadyLiberty1885.com

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A.P. Dillon resides in the Triangle area of North Carolina and is the founder of LadyLiberty1885.com. Her current and past writing can also be found at IJ review, Da Tech Guy Blog, Heartland Institute and StopCommonCoreNC.org.
Her current writing project is a children’s book series.

3 Responses to Letter To Wake Cty Superintendent

1. Why am I waking up at 5 am to have a kid on the bus at oh dark thirty? What educational study lead you to believe that such a thing is desirable? This would mean that kids have to be in bed, asleep, by 9 pm to the their 8 hours of sleep — do you assure us that every school activity is done in time to get ’em home in time?

2. Why can’t you figure out how to cancel classes, and how to announce makeup days, in a way that isn’t laughable? Seriously, those emails arrived at 10 am that day, and phone messages about the same. The Wake Co Schools web page was horrible, and the Twitter feed had lots of nonsense that I had to wade through.